Medical appliance



Dec. 31, 1929. w. J. KELLEY MEDICAL APFLImcE Filed June 14, 1928 herald:

Patented Dec. 31, 1929 UNETED STATES PATENT OFFICE WILLIAM JOHN KELLEY,F MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA MEDICAL APPLIANCE Application filed June 14,

bacteria which may have secured a lodgement therein.

To this end, my invention comprises a hollow metal conoid, through whichthe suns rays pass from the larger end to the smaller end of saidconoid, where they are deflected in the direction of the diseased partsby a metal reflector which is set at an angle of about forty-fivedegrees with the axis of the conoid, and just outside the smaller end ofthe conoid; further, an eye-tube, the axis of which is parallel to theaxis of the conoid, being so held and being connected to the conoid byan adjustable arm; and also comprising a plate and metal ear speculumwhich may be attached, by means of a clamp, to the conoid for treatmentof the ear. I

Referring to the drawing forming part of this specification, Figure 1 isa longitudinal section of an appliance embodying my improvements. Figure2 is a plan view of the appliance shown in Figure 1. Figure 3 is a frontelevation of the plate and speculum for treatment of the ear; Figure 4cis a side elevation of the plate and speculum shown in Figure 3, andalso a part of the conoid, showing them attached by means of a clamp,which is also shown, and in the position necessary for treatment of theear. Figure 5 is an elevation of the simple clamp used in attaching theplate and speculum to the conoid.

The main body of this appliance consists of a hollow metal conoid 1, thelarger end being cylindrical, carrying at its smaller end a metalreflector 2, for intercepting and defleeting the suns rays to theaflfected parts of throat and ear. The reflector is preferably set at anangle of about forty-five degrees with the axis of the conoid and issecured to a bent projection of the conoid by screws 12 12.

To the larger and cylindrical end of conoid 1, fitting snugly but notfriction-tightly, is attached an adjustable metal arm of two pieces 3and 6, held securely in adjustment by a clamp 4c, and set-screw 5. Ineach end 1928. Serial K012535390.

of the adjustable metal arm 3 and 6, a hole is drilled exactly parallelto the other but of different diameter. That end of the adjustable metalarm 3 and 6, having the larger hole fits about the larger andcylindrical end of the conoid 1, and is kept from slipping to thesmaller end of the conoid 1, by means of a screw 10. j

In the smaller hole of the adjustable metal arm 3, and 6, is held snuglybut not frictiontightly, a metal cylindrical tube 7 the position ofwhich is secured by set-screw 8, and to the lower end of said tube isheld a disc of colored glass 11. by means of an eye-piece 9, which isscrewed to the end of the tube 7.

For application of the suns rays to the car, a small metal speculum 14,is secured by rivets 15 15, to a rigid plate 13. The plate 13 is held inproper position against the conoid 1, by a circular clamp 16, and aset-screw 17,

thus permitting the suns rays to be deflected directly from thereflector 2, through the speculum 1 1, to the eflected part of ear.

The user of the appliance can either sit or recline in the sunshine. Forthroat treatment, the smaller end of the conoid is placed in throat withreflector at proper depth and in proper. position. The eye-tube is thenbrought to the eye and sighted at the sun.

For ear treatment, the speculum is attached to the conoid, then thespeculum is inserted in the ear canal and the eye-tube sighted at thesun. The adjustable arm permits convenient movement of the eye-tube tosuit the position of the eye with respect to the location of the mouthor the ear. The axes of the eye-tube and the conoid being parallel, thesuns rays pass directly down the barrel of the conoid while the eye-tubeis sighted at the l/Vhen used for treatment of ear, a part u sun. of therays thus intercepted by the metal refiector are thrown through acircular aperture in the plate to which the speculum is riveted, andstraight through the barrel of the speculum to the diseased part.

I am aware that prior to my invention medical appliances for treatmentof throat diseases by the suns rays have been made with -a conoid andalso with an inclined reflector at the base of the conoid. I thereforedo not claim such a combination broadly; but

I claim: 7

1. A medical appliance for the treatment of the throat or of the ear,comprising a conoidal shell and a reflector attached to said shell, andmeans for pointing the said conoidal shell directly at the sun by meansof a cylindrical tube attached to said conoidal shell, the central axisof the saideylindrical tube being at all times parallel to the centralaxis of the said conoidal shell.

2. A medical appliance comprising a conoidal shell, a metal reflectorsupported obliquely just outside the smallerend of said shell, tointercept the suns rays cast through the interior length of said shell,and an eyetube, the axis of which is parallel to the axis of the shell,and Which is connected to the shell at its larger end by means of anadjustable arm.

3. A medical appliance comprising a conoidal shell, an eye-tubeconnected to the shell at its larger end by means of an adjust able armand means for vdirecting the suns rays Within the ear of the user, saidmeans consisting of a speculum Which may be attached to the smaller endof the conoidal shell at right angles to the axis of said shell and isthus held directly in front of the obliquely supported reflector.

4. A medical appliance comprising a co-- noidal shell, the larger end ofWhich is cylindrical, an oblique reflector at the smaller end of saidshell, While at the larger end of said shell is connected an adjustabletwo-piece arm, in each end of Which is drilled a hole, these holes beingparallel and of dilterent diameter, the end or" the arm having the largehole fitting snugly but not friction-tightly about the larger andcylindrical end of said shell, and the end of the arm having the smallhole fitting. snugly but not frictiontightly about an eye-tube, saideye-tube being further secured to the arm by a set-screw in the arm, anda disc of colered glass which is held against one end of the eye-tube bymeans of an eye-piece Which is screwed about the same end of theeye-tube.

XVILLIAM JOHN KELLEY.

